KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Song of Solomon 4:14–15
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Song of Solomon 4:14
14Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
14Spikenard and Saffron, Calamus and Cynamom, with all trees of Frankincense, Mirrhe and Aloes, with all the chiefe spices.
Song of Solomon 4:15
15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
15A fountaine of gardens, a well of liuing waters, and streames from Lebanon.
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DEFINED WORDS
Song of Solomon 4:14
A costly aromatic plant and the fragrant ointment made from it.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fragrant saffron crocus or spice named among costly aromatics.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The sweet aromatic substance or plant called calamus in the KJV; the entry does not impose a disputed modern species identification.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fragrant aromatic bark or spice called cinnamon in the KJV.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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MEANING IN THIS VERSE
frankincense
A fragrant gum-resin used as incense, perfume, a gift, or an offering.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A bitter, strongly fragrant gum-resin used as a spice, perfume, medicinal mixture, gift, or burial preparation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A fragrant wood or aromatic substance named with myrrh and other spices; the KJV does not identify its exact botanical source.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Principal, foremost, highest in rank or importance; also a leader.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Aromatic substances used for fragrance, anointing, burial, seasoning, or trade.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Song of Solomon 4:15
Enclosed or cultivated places for plants, herbs, or fruit.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Alive or having life; as a noun, one's means of support or possessions.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Flowing bodies or currents of water.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study23Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
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Open the full verse study6Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
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Open the full verse study6¶ Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
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Open the full verse study2My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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Open the full verse study19Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
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Open the full verse study17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Open the full verse study12¶ While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
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Open the full verse study10And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
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Open the full verse study9And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
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Open the full verse study11And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:
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Open the full verse study39And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
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Open the full verse study1AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
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Open the full verse study6As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
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Open the full verse study13And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
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Open the full verse study1I AM come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
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Open the full verse study14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
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Open the full verse study13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
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Open the full verse study6I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
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Open the full verse study13O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the Lord, the fountain of living waters.
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Open the full verse study13Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
14Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
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Open the full verse study8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
9For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
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Open the full verse study4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
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Open the full verse study1AND he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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Open the full verse study12A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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